Vocabulary
Across
- 3. the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
- 6. clause this word contains both a subject and a verb, can't stand alone
- 9. bitter,caustic language to hurt or ridicule someone
- 10. central idea or message
- 12. describes the author's attitude
- 13. question not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious
- 15. attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece
- 17. branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another
- 19. work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
Down
- 1. evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes
- 2. word/phrase that links different ideas
- 4. the duplication, either exact or approximate of any element of language
- 5. ironic minimizing fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is
- 6. type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole
- 7. major division of genre
- 8. amazing language that surprises and delights
- 11. deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises
- 14. sentence/ group of sentences that expresses easier to determine in spoken language than written language
- 16. principles governing the art of writing
- 18. anything that represents itself and stands for something else